Venue : Village Hotel Changi

The Agile Testing, Test AUtomation and Non Functional Testing Summit will happen in Singapore from June 14th to 16th, 2017 which will bring enticing talks by 14+ speakers on latest techonologies, trends and tools in software testing space. It will also offer 2 full day hands-on workshops on Security Testing and Applied Agile Testing , bringing days full of fun, learning and hands-on practical sessions.

Venue : Village Hotel Changi

The Agile Testing, Test AUtomation and Non Functional Testing Summit will happen in Singapore from June 14th to 16th, 2017 which will bring enticing talks by 14+ speakers on latest techonologies, trends and tools in software testing space. It will also offer 2 full day hands-on workshops on Security Testing and Applied Agile Testing , bringing days full of fun, learning and hands-on practical sessions.

June

14 - 16

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14+ Speakers and 100 Tickets

Overview of the event

Day 1 : Non Functional Testing Summit : As the demand for higher quality has grown in the software industry, so has the need to focus on all attributes of the software contributing to its overall quality. With growing demand and expertise in software areas like Performance, Load, Security, Usability and Interoperability, software testing has expanded much beyond functional testing alone. Non Functional Testing is aimed at "how well" a system performs its intended functions. It goes beyond ‘functionality’ and focuses on ‘abilities’ of the system. To cater to these growing needs of the software testing community, we are bringing this Non-Functional Testing Summit to your city where you will hear industry experts and understand the latest trends on non-functional testing.

Day 2 : Agile Testing and Test Automation Summit 2017 Agile Testing and Test Automation Summit 2017 will be happening in Singapore on June 15th, 2017, with focus on Technical Sessions featuring over 7+ Presentations exploring the depth and breadth of Agile software development and Test Automation across all practices, and perspectives. The Summit will be a key meeting place for Test Professionals and Executives from leading IT organizations. The event features an inspiring day of talks and workshops by professional speakers focused on Agile Testing and Test Automation Innovation.

The discussion in the Summit will be on what are the key challenges to improve your strategy, team development, test professional-skills , agile testing challenges and Test Automation implementation.

Day 3 : Applied Agile Testing Workshop Overview : Applied Agile Testing workshop is a much needed technical workshop for agile enthusiasts who want to learn hands-on using the tool and techniques of the new age agile software engineering practices. The workshop is a combination of theory (30%) mixed with practical based learning (70%), focussing specifically on bringing agile mind set and pace to testers working in agile projects, with deep understanding of the processes and needs with hands-on testing. The tools used during the workshop are easily replaced by your own favourite tool as long as you follow the principles.

Who should attend : Software Engineers, Software testers, QA , Test leaders, Test managers, Automation or Manual Testers, Technical Project Managers, or any agile team members involved in software development or testing who are introducing or working in agile, introducing continuous delivery to improve the time to market while reducing cost and improving quality.

Applied Agile Testing Workshop (16 June, 2017)

Nishi Grover Garg

Learn the art of testing in an agile environment using various techniques and tricks aided by theoretical as well as practical sessions and hands-on project to get a real-world feel of challenges of testing in an agile project. - Click Here for More Info

Facts & Figures About The Event

14Speakers

14Topics

100Tickets

Day 1

Non Functional Testing Summit, Singapore - Expected Agenda (Speakers topic will be different) and final agenda will be ready by May 5.

It all started with a project kick off and an innocent request for “doing some performance/load testing for the project”. This session will explain why, especially for situations where Non Functional testing is required, why load and stress testing often falls short? You need to throw away traditional non functional test processes (=Revolution) and then improve the new process constantly (=Evolution). Usually, it is not possible to have a full scale revolution at once, however this session will guide through load modeling theory that can provide a different approach which allows load, performance and latency test to add real value to the project. Stakeholders and test managers can use the best practices to handle the coverage and depth of the non functional tests. One important aspect was the focus on a scalability, reliability of system which is best described as "Patterns of Non functional test for everyone". At the end of the presentation we share our hard-earned insights regarding the things which worked out or did not work out so well.

Learning Objective:
Challenges faced in Big project while conducting non functional test
Learn different types of non functional test which has been implemented
Learn the benefits of implementing Non functional testing
Be introduced to new paradigms to achieve reliability through non functional test

Experienced in working on major Banking IT projects & Exchange IT Projects and a proven track record of building, managing and developing testing teams both onsite & offshore. Skilled in managing outsource test suppliers located in India, Australia, UK, Germany, Thailand, Singapore and building cross cultural test teams. Instrumental in providing thought leadership in the strategic planning of testing by adopting & applying test methodologies. Expert in implementing test strategies across test program for Functional/Regression, Nonfunctional, Devops test and Operational testing. Proven expertise in driving productivity optimization, played roles spanning from test conceptualization, test design to implementation, automation & non functional test consulting.

Pramod Nair

Pramod is an ISTQB Certified QA leader with 11+ years’ experience working in extremely dynamic and fast paced environments, a proven track record of delivery, strong strategic vision and demonstrated ability to inspire/mentor QA teams.

He possesses strong knowledge of the financial industry and has worked with IT Services, global banks, product & managed services companies & global exchange. He has a broad range of skills across functional and non-functional testing and has strong experience in manual, automated, performance and resilience testing

He has been instrumental in upgrade of the SGX Derivatives Trading & Clearing Platform that enables participants to trade at micro second latency and as the non-functional test expert is involved in all major activities at SGX and has experience in managing testing for wide range of projects including data center re-location and designing IT DR scenarios

In Today's Agile world, the pace at which a product is delivered to customer is very fast compared to our older methodologies. Especially in banking domain, there is an utmost need for all the banks to deliver the products faster to the markets to attract more customers. Also, there is an additional challenge of implementing Agile methodologies in the projects due to sub system and Vendor dependencies.

In this kind of competitive and challenging environment, the scope of Performance/Load testing and its subsequent phase have gained more importance. Performing proper Load/Performance testing is becoming tough because of time, budget and Infra related constraints.

In this session, we will be discussing about the below topics to address the need for proper load testing:

- Load testing and its importance.
- Different phases of a Performance/Load Testing
- Challenges faced by Banks to perform Load Testing in Agile Environment
- Process to be implemented to Perform Load Testing in an Agile based environment
- Parameters and factors to be considered for a proper load testing

Speaker Profile

Vignesh Kumar Murugesan is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 8 years of Experience in banking domain.

He has completed his Master of Science from the prestigious National University of Singapore and joined the Banking Industry in Singapore.

Being an ISTQB professional, he has set high testing standards in his work environment and has proven track record for his high quality deliveries.

Being the SME for the performance testing, he has experience in determining Performance Testing strategies and shaping solutions.

Part of the design committee for Contact Center and Digital bank applications, he has good experience in handling the Business users and the technology team.
Highly motivated towards Agile Environment and concentrates on methods to overcome challenges.

Smart worker with never give up attitude

Always hunting for latest technologies in current market

Currently working as Senior Test Lead at Development Bank of Singapore (DBS).

This will be an interactive session where participants will join a table to discuss the round table topic - Agile Testing & Test Automation . Each table has a "Topic Guru" to facilitate the discussion.

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.

Speaker Profile

Experienced Information Security Analyst with experience in leading the Web Application Security and Vulnerability Management projects. Used penetration tools and methodologies such as OWASP Top 10.

Moving ahead, he is into OSCP world, which proves that it’s holder is able to identify vulnerabilities, create and modify exploit code, exploit hosts, and successfully preform tasks on the compromised systems over various operating systems.

Everyone knows that software security is very important, but usually the important things are not given that importance or treated as priority in the software industry. We are not sure of this attitude from product owners, managers, testers towards security testing. Millions of web applications, mobile apps and other software platforms; and yet no appropriate security standards in place. The fight has been ON for long years to change this attitude. Alas! the change is very slow. One of the way the change can be accommodated is by learning to test for security and spread the awareness of security testing to product owners, testers, sales, marketing folks and everyone involved in the team who are going to build something great for their customers.

Santhosh Tuppad is going to speak about the state of the security testing industry and also show some demonstration of his hacks (ethical) and also mention about how participants / audience can kickstart their security testing from basics to advanced. Santhosh will be there to help people connect with security testing in simple terms.

Day 2

Agile Testing Test Automation, Singapore - Expected Agenda (Speakers topic will be different) and final agenda will be ready by May 5.

Everyone speaks about Agile, but no one really cares about it? Agile is a buzz word and everyone wants to be agile. But, have we really thought about the attributes that makes a person a real agile player? Human values have always played a bigger role in success of anything on this planet. Well, human values have decreased eventually and nowadays they are faked to an extent for the benefits of an individual. As we are in business, its not about an individual here; but team members. Having human values across the team can help project move faster and it can be made sure that it is delivered in a better way for the success of the company.

Santhosh Tuppad is going to speak about building trust, kindness, efficient communication with the team members while making progress on the project. Santhosh is going to share some of his experiences where he saw great progress in the project when he applied human values to be the highest priority.

The session will help you understand Scrum framework, its roles and the expectations from a tester in a Scrum Team.

As the Scrum guide says that it does not recognize any other title for the development team members than Developer, nor does it recognizes any sub-teams in the development team then the questions many have are, how does an individual with testing skills fit in a Scrum Team? What do the testers do in a Scrum Team? What is each role in Scrum Team responsible for?

This session will attempt to answer such questions and would further clarify the roles and responsibilities of each role in Scrum through the use of a puzzle game.

Speaker Profile

Rakesh is a Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) and has been into software development for over 14 years now. He has worked mostly in finance and investment banking domain. He is a Scrum Master for a team in a leading investment bank and his team was a winner of “Investment Bank Agile Team of the Year” award at Barclays Agility Awards 2016.

Effective quality assurance/ software testing adds critical value to a project providing clarity to project's purpose & plan and carry out execution effectively. QA/Test managers typically want to deliver project with productivity metrics while management may want to see time to market that support customer or user satisfaction or Return on Investment (ROI) initiatives. Many organizations are myopic on the primary objective of velocity. However, velocity means miniature without quality. “Continuous integration” has created a strong push in the market to apply new tools and techniques to support faster, leaner test automation earlier in the SDLC. While this is an important and logical step in the evolution of test automation, it causes many organizations to lose sight of the still critical regression phase of testing. Author will provide a continuous automation strategy that supports organization’s culture, resources and budget by implementing continuous integration in agile way.

Technology innovations have enabled creation of automated specifications. This session will showcase how we can use technology to execute specifications aka User Stories allowing us to obtain early and continuous feedback of our product. The discussion would include different styles of user story formats (AS A...I WANT...SO THAT / IN ORDER TO...AS A...I WANT). Further, it would demonstrate SpecFlow, a popular tool within the Microsoft community for functional automation. This kind of automation will result in improved customer experience and better product quality.

Speaker Profile

He is an enterprise / solution architect and technology evangelist with extensive international experience and specializing in Microsoft technologies. With 18+ years in the IT industry, he has worked in various verticals including Finance, Healthcare, Education and e-Government. Have spearheaded customer engagements world-wide and provided a number of architectural consulting services in alignment with client goals and strategies! At the moment, he is privileged to be working with one of the best agile teams at a leading investment bank building and maintaining in-house core products.

This will be an interactive session where participants will join a table to discuss the round table topic - Agile Testing & Test Automation . Each table has a "Topic Guru" to facilitate the discussion.

Test automation today is synonymous with Selenium or Appium or other UI testing tools. Focusing primarily on end to end tests can lead to a large number of tests and a maintainability nightmare which can result in a lot effort without delivering the expected results. I would like to share my experience with building large automation suites and an approach of distributing tests across layers that increases success to test automation and testing in general in a team.

Format: 45 minutes Presentation with real life examples

Speaker Profile

Riju Kansal works at ThoughtWorks as Senior QA Consultant and is responsible for defining & executing test approach for various fast paced software delivery projects. He often wears a QA hat in a team and keeps a wholistic eye on the project delivery, disrupts when it helps.

He has worked as a Developer, Tech Lead, Scrum Master, Test automation consultant, QA, QA Lead in teams in both large and small corporations including a variety of domains, over a period of 17 years in the industry.

Innovation Games are the set of directed games played by customers or the teams as a means of generating feedback about a product or a service. They are being adopted widely across the agile world because of their visual, fun and effective nature. Various Innovation games have been coined and described which can be used for various aspects and processes of the software development life cycle.

This session aims to discuss and present live a few such games which can be easily adopted and used effectively in any team environment. It will be a fun and interactive session with audience volunteers playing the games live and quick learning for adoption in your teams!

Speaker Profile

Industry Experience : Nishi is a consulting Testing and Agile trainer with 9+ years of industry experience working in Agile environment and has hands-on experience in all stages of software testing life cycle from White box, Black box, Automation testing to Regression and Usability testing. She has had the role of mentoring and training the new joiners to her team, and conducting in-house Induction training programs and Knowledge-sharing sessions.

She is a Certified Professional-Master Agile Testing CP-MAT, Certified Professional- Automation Agile Testing CP-AAT, Agile Scrum Master ASM and ISTQB certified (Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst & Test Manager) and likes to keep updating her skill periodically. She is a licensed Agile Testing trainer by Agile Testing Alliance ATA and has conducted numerous corporate and public training workshops. She has been a speaker at numerous testing events and conferences where her talks and hands-on sessions have been deeply appreciated. She works actively in the testing community to organize events, meet-ups and also has been chairperson for national level conferences.

Freelance writer : Numerous articles published at forums like www.agileconnection.com , www.stickyminds.com and on www.utest.com community forums. She is very active in the industry and also has her own blog www.testwithnishi.wordpress.com where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.

Learn the art of testing in an agile environment using various techniques and tricks aided by theoretical as well as practical sessions and hands-on project to get a real-world feel of challenges of testing in an agile project.

Session-1

- Introduction to Agile , Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Introduction to Scrum lifecycle, Scrum Ceremonies and Roles
- The Testing lifecycle in agile lifecycle
- User stories, INVEST principle along with practical exercise
- Tester mindset in agile team
- Exploratory Testing and Session based Test Management in Agile team with practical
- Use of Mind Maps in Agile testing with practical

LUNCH BREAK

Session-2

- Automation in Agile – When and how to automate
- Introduction to TDD and ATDD in an agile project
- BDD framework in agile , BDD test designing
- Practical End-to-end testing of live application Including

Industry Experience : Nishi is a consulting Testing and Agile trainer with 9+ years of industry experience working in Agile environment and has hands-on experience in all stages of software testing life cycle from White box, Black box, Automation testing to Regression and Usability testing. She has had the role of mentoring and training the new joiners to her team, and conducting in-house Induction training programs and Knowledge-sharing sessions.

She is a Certified Professional-Master Agile Testing CP-MAT, Certified Professional- Automation Agile Testing CP-AAT, Agile Scrum Master ASM and ISTQB certified (Foundation and Advanced Test Analyst & Test Manager) and likes to keep updating her skill periodically. She is a licensed Agile Testing trainer by Agile Testing Alliance ATA and has conducted numerous corporate and public training workshops. She has been a speaker at numerous testing events and conferences where her talks and hands-on sessions have been deeply appreciated. She works actively in the testing community to organize events, meet-ups and also has been chairperson for national level conferences.

Freelance writer : Numerous articles published at forums like www.agileconnection.com , www.stickyminds.com and on www.utest.com community forums. She is very active in the industry and also has her own blog www.testwithnishi.wordpress.com where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.

- Access to Full-day event including tea, lunch
- Talks by industry experts on different aspects of non-functional testing
- Overview of frameworks and tools that you can adopt
- Access to slide decks of all speakers
- Networking opportunities with other passionate professionals from your city

What will you learn about?

Detecting where underlying problems and frictions exist in your organisation that will be alleviated by testing technologies. Using testing as a tool for innovation across your organisation

Are there any prerequisites to attend this program?

No

Do I need to register for the event?

Yes, all conference attendees must register in advance to attend the event.

Contact Us

Event Location

Village Hotel Changi

1 Netheravon Rd, Singapore 508502

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